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New-born babies in Japan who can’t make it around to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies instead – cuddly bags of rice.A small rice shop in Fukuoka, southern Japan, has been swamped with orders for “Dakigokochi” rice-filled bags shaped like a bundled baby and printed with the new-born’s face and name.

Each rice bag is tailor-made to weigh as much as the new-born and shaped so the rice fills the bag up. Holding the round-edged bag would feel like holding a real baby.

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Each year, the President declares January 16th to be Religious Freedom Day, and calls upon Americans to “observe this day through appropriate events and activities in homes, schools, and places of worship.” The day is the anniversary of the passage, in 1786, of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.

The goal of ReligiousFreedomDay.com is to promote and protect students’ religious expression rights by informing educators, parents, and students about these liberties.

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